Many; there is plenty of blame to go around. It’s not obvious which part of the system gives the most leverage for change…
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
Point is, fixing software dev is not a technical problem, it’s a social coordination problem.
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
Sometimes social problems have technical fixes, though. Sufficiently better technology might replace all the crap quickly.
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one problem is that you can't replace all the crap at once. So the best you can do is 10% beauty 90% stuff that deals with crap
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Replying to @emareaf
Yes. There are various obvious approaches to dealing with this, none ideal. Urbit is one.
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cynical me says it's gonna be another ivory tower like Smalltalk.
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Smalltalk had a lot of positive influence, even though no one used it; so that would be a good-ish outcome!
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
The details of Urbit look almost entirely wrong, but it gets some big things right, and the sheer audacity is inspiring.
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Replying to @Meaningness @emareaf
Everyone knows everything is crap, but Yarvin is virtually the only one saying “so we have to throw it all out and start over.”
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I do think the majority of programmers have no awareness of how much better things could be.
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Yup! But the problems described in the OP are mainly due to management failures.
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